Egyptian President-elect to Appoint Woman, Christian Vice-Presidents

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 27th 2012 | no comments

Egyptian president-elect Mohamed Morsi on Tuesday announced that he would nominate six vice-presidents, including a woman and a Christian, in a bid to keep his word to be a president to all Egyptian. The move is also perceived as a step toward ending the reign of the military, which is [...]

Liberian President Says Witnesses Threatened, Coerced, Paid By Prosecution

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 16th 2012 | no comments

Liberian former president Charles Taylor on Wednesday said that witnesses had been threatened and paid to testify against him in a trial which found him guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes but cleared him of the accusation of having ordered crimes he was convicted of. Taylor, [...]

Ugandan Army Captures Kony’s General Caesar Achellam

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 16th 2012 | no comments

Uganda announced at the beginning of the week that it has captured one of the most important members of the Lord’s Resistance Army, coming a step closer to capturing the leader of the movement, Joseph Kony, who has been under an international arrest warrant since 2005, and was [...]

U.N. Observers Under Syrian Rebels Protection After Attack on Them

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 16th 2012 | no comments

United Nations reported on Tuesday that a convoy of U.N. unarmed observers was victim of a roadside bomb blast near the city of Hama, and that the vehicles were damaged but the observers were not harmed. The Syrian activists accuse the government of having killed 20 mourners who were [...]

Greek President To Appoint Caretaker Govt

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 16th 2012 | no comments

Greek president Karolos Papoulias is expected to meet with the leaders of the parties in order to appoint a caretaker prime minister who will organize the snap elections called for June after the political parties were unable to decide on forming a government following the election on [...]

Francois Hollande Meets Angela Merkel

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 16th 2012 | no comments

New installed French president Francois Hollande on Tuesday evening met with the German chancellor Angela Merkel in a long-expected meeting on the confronting views on the European economic crisis. Hollande arrived in Berlin Tuesday evening, on a second attempt to do [...]

Ukrainian High Court Delays Former PM’s Appeal Until End of June

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 15th 2012 | no comments

Ukrainian High Court on Tuesday postponed a decision on the appeal formulated by the lawyers of Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister of Ukraine, who is serving now a seven-year sentence in jail for abuse of power, until after the Euro 2012 soccer tournament [...]

Greece To Hold Snap Elections in June

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 15th 2012 | no comments

Greeks are expected to go back to vote in June after the talks between the most important parties in the country failed to offer a solution for the political stalemate created by the inconclusive result of the elections held a week ago. The announcement comes as the efforts made by [...]

Palestinians Commemorate “Day of Catastrophe”

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 15th 2012 | no comments

The Palestinians mark on Tuesday “Nakba Day” or “Day a Catastrophe” dedicated to the 64th anniversary of the establishment of Israel, which was proclaimed on May 14, 1948, and was celebrated this year on April 26, according to the Jewish calendar. Nakba Day is [...]

Francois Hollande Sworn In as President of France

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 15th 2012 | no comments

Francois Hollande on Tuesday became the president of France as he was sworn in the office during a ceremony which happened at the Champs-Elysees Palace in central Paris. Hollande becomes the first Socialist president of France in decades, at a time when the European economic [...]

China Accuses Dalai Lama of Deception Over Alleged Assassination Attempt Information

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 15th 2012 | no comments

China on Tuesday accused Dalai Lama of spreading false information about the Communist regime and deceiving the world after he expressed, in an interview for Sunday Telegraph, concern related to an inside information he received from Tibet that assassination plots are [...]

Islamist Group Claims Twin Car Bomb Attack In Damascus

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 12th 2012 | no comments

Massive protests occurred in Syria on Friday hours after two explosions killed at least 55 people in the capital of the country, Damascus, fueling the worries that the country was slipping into civil war, and piling to this the possibility that the al-Qaeda, or al-Qaeda-like, groups [...]

Greek President To Lead Talks For National Salvation Govt.

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 12th 2012 | no comments

Greek President Karolos Papoulias on Saturday is preparing to hold talks with the leaders of the parties that scored in the last parliamentary elections last weekend, in an attempt to create an emergency government after the problems revisit the Greek economy. Last Sunday Greek [...]

Low Court In Egypt Rules Against Presidential Election Date

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 10th 2012 | no comments

An Egyptian administrative court in Behna, in the Nile Delta, 40 kilometers north of Cairo, on Wednesday ruled for the presidential election on May 23 to be suspended, in a move which adds to the confusion and turnaround situations which have accompanied the presidential [...]

South Sudan Accuses Sudan of Bombing Its Territory

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 9th 2012 | no comments

South Sudan on Wednesday accused Sudan of bombing border zones in South Sudan, in violation of the United Nations Security Council resolution, which demanded of the two Sudanese country to ceasefire immediately, threatening that otherwise they would be submitted to sanctions. According [...]

Turkey Refuses to Extradite Iraqi Vice President

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 9th 2012 | no comments

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister on Wednesday announced that the country would not extradite Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, which has been on the run for a few months after the government in Baghdad accused him of implication in terror activity. Officially, al-Hashemi maintained [...]

Israel Accuses Iran of “Playing for Time,” Demands Complete Halt on Uranium Enrichment Activity

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 9th 2012 | no comments

Israel on Wednesday accused Iran of stalling negotiations over its nuclear program weeks before the talks on its uranium enrichment facilities are expected to commence in Baghdad on May 23, in a format that comprises the five members of the Security Council and Germany. The [...]

Yulia Tymoshenko Ends Hunger Strike, Goes to the Hospital

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 9th 2012 | no comments

Ukrainian former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is serving a seven-year sentence in a penitentiary in Kharkiv for abuse of office, on Wednesday, has been moved from prison in a high-security police convoy to a local hospital, where she is expected to be treated for a [...]

Bomb Goes Off After U.N. Convoy Passes Near Deraa, Syria

Posted in: World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 9th 2012 | no comments

A roadside bomb on Wednesday struck a Syrian military truck wounding six soldiers seconds after a convoy of the head of the U.N. observer mission passed by, amid threats from the Syrian rebel leader Col. Riad al-Assad, to resume the fight after the regime failed to honor its engagement [...]